The 18-year-old was on Thursday sentenced to at least 52 years behind bars for the murders of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year
Killer Axel Rudakubana has not been attacked in prison, it has been confirmed.
The 18-year-old was on Thursday sentenced to at least 52 years behind bars for the murders of three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport on July 29 last year.
Earlier today, a voice note doing the rounds on social media claimed the killer had been attacked in his cell. Rudakubana is currently being held in a segregation unit at HMP Belmarsh due to fears he will be murdered as soon as he steps into general population because the prisoners can’t wait to avenge the little girls he slaughtered.
The audio recording suggested that two inmates were allowed into Rudakubana’s cell, where they carried out an attack on the 18-year-old.
The MoJ later confirmed to the Mirror that the claims were inaccurate and the killer had not been attacked. A Ministry of Justice spokesperson today said: “I can confirm that reports of Axel Rudakubana being attacked in prison are inaccurate. He has not been attacked.”
Earlier today, we reported how a former inmate said the 18-year-old child killer will be targeted with makeshift shanks and “prison napalm” after being sentenced to more than five decades for the killing of three little girls Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine.
The south-east London nick is known to be one of Britain’s most violent jails, where child killers sit at the very bottom of the prison hierarchy. It’s likely he’ll have a target on his back for the rest of his life.
Former Category A prisoner Ricky Killeen, 39, told the MailOnline: “Every prisoner will want to target him because he killed children. Even small-time prisoners will try to attack him as that will mean they will get more drugs as rewards from other inmates.”
Rudakubana is currently being assessed by the prison service, which is keeping a close eye on him to decide whether to keep him at Belmarsh or move him elsewhere.
Former prison governor Ian Acheson said: “The threat Rudakubana poses to others is probably unquantifiable. The threat he is subject to will be extremely high. Child killers are at the bottom of the prison hierarchy.”
Mr Acheson, an expert on prison radicalisation, added: “Given the facts of his attack, the targets and the intent to make biological weapons [ricin] and reference an Al Qaeda manual, the obvious berth for him would be with Islamist extremists.”
Steve Gillan, the General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said: “Of course this individual is going to be a high risk, but the Prison Service have dealt with many like him in the past.”
